With science making leaps and bounds every day in advancing our society into a very technologically-driven future, it's no secret that industries across the board are being touched by this sort of intelligence and evolution in business-capacity.
Although when you think of science-impacted industries you often first come up with space-related or computer-related businesses, you can't forget that there are plenty of other industries impacted by the day-to-day evolution of technology.
In this article, we're going to go through a few ways in how science is actually improving the ways we here at your local dentist office in Hoboken, NJ take care of your teeth. Science is also affecting our oral health in general-and we'll get into that later.
Science and Healthcare
From today's dental visit to the future of tomorrow's healthcare, science plays a very important and predominant role in how science is evolving. This can be both good for the patient and for the professional.
As science evolves on an almost everyday basis, it can be hard to keep up! However, although we're not yet at a setting like I, Robot, we're heading soon in that direction! However, before we get there, let's focus more on the here and the now: we're going to introduce a few different advancements in the healthcare industry when it comes to oral health:
1. Tele dentistry: As our world gets transitioned to being in-person to going all online, dentistry also hops on the bandwagon. By using the high evolution and upgradability of technology, the tele dentistry has reshaped the industry and plays a role in steering the future of it, too.
There are a few new applications of tele dentistry that can help patients both in-house and out of office. You can either work with the patient's sensitive information regarding the storage and forwarding of data from a provider to a patient. This remote work is important when it comes to the organizational side of dentistry.
Another way dentists can use the science of tele dentistry is video conferencing between patient and specialist. This can help improve the life and oral health of patients who live in rural areas. These people might otherwise not have the resources they need to help create a healthy oral care environment.
The dentist and the patient can also have follow-up appointments via live streaming as well as provide screenings and preventative care.
Some other science advancements that are improving oral health also include:
2. Dental 3D Printing: In a world where 3D printing has been solving multiple issues across the board, the dental industry has also jumped on board. For clinical purposes, 3D printing has allowed dentist professionals to be able to create and print out customized medical shapes, structures, and even dental implants to fit the patient's jaw and teeth. This can help with tooth removal and revolutionizes what having "fake" teeth truly mean. Now, a dental professional can easily formulate a tooth that fits your mouth just as easily as creating a customized one on a computer program.
3D printing can also solve partial dentures and crowns and even work on mouth reconstruction or inlays with restorations. These procedures were not as quick as before-so having the tech upgrade can definitely help improve the visit and decrease the time you have to spend as a patient at your dentist's office.
3. Dental Imaging and Camera: Designed to help during a procedure, dental imaging with an almost immediate, real-time stream can help dentists do their job better, easier, and quicker. Especially with more invasive procedures, this sort of technology, also known as computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and computer-aided design (CAD), can help with navigation through a complicated oral surgery or be a backup to an already seamless process.
Science and Your Teeth
Obviously, with the new millennium, there were plenty of speculations as to how science would advance our science through technology and other ways. Interestingly enough, it also spans across having an impact on your teeth.
We hope this article was informative enough to help you see new ways in which science can impact your teeth and your overall oral health.
